Ever really watched someone that have NO knowledge of coins use a price guide? Typical procedure is to go down the left column to find the date...
What aren't you getting? The permission, or finding anything noteworthy?
I have seen that sort of surface damage on coins that have been recovered from sewers. Why it should form that pattern I'm not sure unless the...
Bull. There would have been somewhere around 160 different obv die pairs used in 1916 for the mercury dimes, not to mention the 6,000+ other die...
Would they actually go looking for such markers? Doubtful.
As far as I know ANACS does not do on site slabbing.
Chipped collar would result in the buldge going outward increasing the diameter. It looks to me like the edge has sustained damage.
Yes it is damaged, but beating it to death wouldn't reduced the weight. Soaking it in corrosives would reduce the weight, but that typically...
1. As I said earlier PCGS would have to be the one to open the roll, and even then how do you prove it was an original bank wrapped roll and not...
Don't have a lot of information at hand but I'll give what I have. This was the Mickley Specimen When it was first sold in 1867 it was described...
I believe it is almost exclusively the Sacs that went to Ecuador. One of the reasons they are popular is because they take Sacagawea to be an...
Unfortunately the passed down through the family story has problems too. It may have been passed from your great grandmother to your grandmother...
I'll be there Friday and part of Saturday
13 mm is way too small to be a lincoln cent. A cent is 19 mm and if it was cut down to 13 mm it would lose a lot more weight than .1 grams.
I'm not an expert on these, but I'm skeptical of it.
I'd say it is both off-center and has misaligned dies. It is off on both sides in the same direction, and part of the design is off the planchet....
If it came out of a sealed mint bag, that bage would have had to have remained sealed bag until it reached PCGS. I think a mint sealed bag of...
Yes some were shipped to Ecuador and they are popular there. They also started counterfeiting them and some of the counterfeits have worked their...
It is most likely though just the result of some PSD done long ago. The "reeding" is crude and uneven.
Split plating by the S exposing the zinc core. I used to own and 1890 or 1902 (can't remember which it was) with a planchet lamination about 3 mm...
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